July 10, 2016

That “ Love Thy Neighbor " thing

I meant that

-God

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We’re here to help support you on your faith journey, so you can find

true peace, happiness, and purpose in life. If you would like to join one of

our parishes, contact any staff member, and we will be honored to

officially welcome you home!

New-member registration forms are also available in the church

entrances and on our website.

Please contact Deacon John in the parish office to schedule the baptism and the baptism preparation class.

Congratulations on your engagement! Please contact Fr. Reker at least 6

months in advance to begin preparation.

If you or a family member is homebound or in the hospital and would like a

pastoral visit, please notify the office.

As July begins, I am happy to announce the start of a sister or twin relationship with a parish in Haiti: St. Lucy Church, which is located on Gonâve Island and in the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince. The Pastor is Father Harold Francois and you can read more about our sister/twin parish in the insert page of the bulletin. My hope is that there will be regular communication between our two parishes, that Father Francois will one day visit us and that a few of us may visit St. Lucy Church, too. Our financial commitment to our sister parish is 1% of our regular church support, which will be approximately $100 monthly for Holy Family and $300 monthly for St. Joseph the Worker. A few parishioners from both SJW & HF are working with me on developing this relationship; if you’d like to join us, please let me know. The SJW Buildings & Grounds Committee has been working on both short term and long terms plans for our facilities and one idea raised was the possible purchase of the house on the corner of Sibley and Blue Earth (428 Blue Earth Street). We felt that it could accomplish a number of positive goals: 1) provide an improved playground/green space for children of the parish, school and neighborhood; 2) offer greater visibility to our parish from that corner; 3) enable a better entrance to the parking lot from Sibley; and 4) remove liability concerns about the trees raised by our insurance inspector. This week we were able to sign a purchase agreement for this property and have a verbal proxy (or permission) from the Diocese of Winona. Now we will make plans for removing the house and designing an updated playground/green space; the School District will be helping with this improvement and we will also seek input from the neighborhood association. If you have any ideas or suggestions about this project, please let me or a member of the Buildings & Grounds Committee know. I also welcome any gifts dedicated to make this happen. When I turned the corner in front of the Holy Family Church last Sunday, I was disappointed to see that the Pro-Life sign was defaced. Someone had sprayed over the positive message displayed there and spelled out, “Pro-choice.” How sad that other citizens cannot allow a church community to offer its witness to the value of each and every human being, from conception to natural death. A couple parishioners wondered if the stop by a group walking across the country in support of human life prompted a countering action. Whatever the case, our Pro-Life Committee will replace the damaged sign with a new one so that we can continue to be a light on a hill (Matthew 5:14). Quite a backward step taken shortly before our nation’s Independence Day, which highlights the freedoms that are ours, including freedom of expression and religious freedom! Sincerely in Christ,

SJW HUBBELL HARVEST FESTIVAL BIG TICKET RAFFLE UPDATE

Tickets for the Big Ticket Raffle will be sold starting in July.

We are currently working to complete the prize list. We are looking for someone who would be able to donate a new IPAD/TABLET or a FLAT

SCREEN TV to be one of the large prize items for the raffle.

The raffle generates the most revenue of all the events/activities at the festival

and the festival is St. Joseph the Worker Parishes largest fundraiser.

If you are able to donate one of these items or something similar, please

contact Nicole at the Parish Office 388-3766. Thank you!

July 2 & 3, 2016

$ 8,253.54

Fiscal Year to Date

$ 8,253.54

St. Joseph the Worker

Fiscal Year to Date

$ 3,241.00

Holy Family

July 3, 2016

$ 3,241.00 Tuesday, July 12:

SJW 12:05pm -†Marlys Wenner

Wednesday, July 13:

SJW 8:00am -† Sandy Reker

Hillcrest 9:30am - Word and Communion

Thursday, July 14:

HF 8:30am -†Candelaria Chub

Friday, July 15:

SJW 12:05pm -†John Pfau

Saturday, July 16: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

SJW 5:00pm -†Peter Winkelman

Sunday, July 17: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

HF 8:30am -For the Parishes

SJW 10:30am -Peggy Miller & Family (healing) ______________________________________________ Monday: Mi 6:1-4, 6-8; Ps 50:5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17,

21, 23; Mt 12:38-42 Tuesday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 85:2-8; Mt 12:46-50 Wednesday: Jer 1:1, 4-10; Ps 71:1-4a, 5-6ab, 15, 17; Mt 13:1-9 Thursday: Jer 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13; Ps 26:6-7ab, 8-11;

Mt 13:10-17 Friday: Jer 3:14-17; Ps 63:2-6, 8-9; Jn 20:1-2, 11-18 Saturday: Jer 7:1-11; Ps 84:3-6a, 8a, 11; Mt 13:24-30 Sunday: Gen 18:20-32; Ps 138:1-3, 6-8;

Col 2:12-14; Lk 11:1-13

Mon. 7/11: 1:00pm Knitting Group - SJW 4:30-8pm Pizza Ranch Fundraiser - Mankato

Sat. 7/16: 4:15pm Confessions - SJW Sun. 7/17: 8:00am Confessions - HF

Congratulations to Anne Saffert the “301”

winner of $100 for June 18!

SATURDAY, JULY 16 SJW—5:00 P.M. MASS Reader: Sheryl Peterson Servers: Eleanor Carleton ECM: Carolyn Kanyusik, Sue Liebl, Mary Jo Synder,

Kris Nelson, Cookie Oberle, Need 2 SUBS Ushers: Ryan Hassing, David Hassing,

Irene Hammerschmidt, Taylor Timp Musicians: Cindy Lawrence, Kylie Ahlschwede,

David Blissenbach

SUNDAY, JULY 17 HF—8:30 A.M. MASS Reader: Kaitlyn Kirchner Servers: Brianna Tauer ECM: Lisa Schultz, Dan Jones, Pat Jones Ushers: Lance Goettl, Mike Schultz Musicians: Jan Osten, Mallory Schlaffman, Renee Mann SJW—10:30 A.M. MASS Reader: Margaret Rengstorf Servers: Emily Schumacher, Joshua Anderson, Elizabeth Peller ECM: Judy Westermayer, Susan Peller, William Schumacher, Carol Brady, Amber Brudelie, Kevin Doyle Usher: Rich Peller, Jacob Peller,

Bruce Richter, Charles Schmidt Musicians: Dominic Abbott, Tim Wendlandt,

Rachel Wendlandt, Judy Doyle SJW—Doorkeeper: Ralph Bade

Children’s Weekly Stewardship Treasure:

HF: $1.00 SJW: $ 17.04

Amount Pledged:

$18,986 51.8%

CMA Totals: St. Joe’s

Goal: $36,600 Goal: $10,270

Amount Pledged:

$5,460 53.2%

CMA Totals: Holy Family

PIZZA RANCH FUNDRAISER - The youth group will

be having a fundraiser at

Mankato’s Pizza Ranch on

Monday, July 11th from 4:30pm

-8:00pm. All tips made that

night and 10% of the total profit

will be given

back to our

parishes youth

programs. Please make plans to have dinner

at Pizza Ranch on the 11th! Questions?

Contact Connie at the Parish Office.

Congratulations to our Music Director, Lauren Bierer

and Family, on adding their newest addition, Hugo

Lachlan Bierer, born Wednesday, July 6th! He is a

beautiful, healthy baby and Lauren is doing wonderfully.

St. Lucy Catholic Church

2) Construct a rectory. There is a

building now in which Fr. Francois

lives, however it is little more than

one room divided up to serve

multiple purposes, one of them

being his residence.

Meet our Sister Parish,

St. Lucy Catholic Church on Gonâve Island

The parish has identified a number of priorities, according to Fr. Francois, chief among them ensuring that the

parish school provides a solid Catholic education and meets and exceeds all educational standards. The

following are three other important priorities that we hope to help with: 1) Construct a school building. Right

now classes are held in two locations - kindergarten classes are held in the church itself (see below), while a

large tent (pictured above) on the grounds of the parish serves as the home of the first through sixth grades.

3) Find the means to pay

the salaries of all eight

teachers. Currently St.

Lucy only has funding to

pay one teacher, so the

eight teachers divide that

one salary among

themselves.

The two images above are of the community gathered for Easter Sunday Mass inside the church.

Fr. Francois on

Easter Sunday.

(SJW) Last week: 7lbs. Items needed this week:

Diapers and Wipes.

Office Phone………...…………………388-3766

Parish Email…….…...…sjwhf@hickorytech.net

FAX……………………...…….………..388-2101

SJW Prayer Chain……...……...Joan: 388-5986

HF Prayer Chain…………..Margaret: 317-4785

Email: margaretbuss@yahoo.com

Rev. Timothy T. Reker - Pastor

Deacon John Rudd - Pastoral Associate

Deacon Preston Doyle - Parish Deacon

Nicole Hermer - Director of Parish Activities

Glenn Barnette - Bookkeeper

Connie Wallin - Faith Ministry Education

Kathy Moldan - HF Rel. Ed. Coor./Office Asst.

Cody Robeck - SJW Youth Coordinator

Lauren Bierer - Music Director

Jon Hermanson - SJW Custodial Engineer

Ben Moldan - HF Custodian

Phone……….………………………….388-0600

Website……………….loyolacatholicschool.org

Casey Breen - President

Sr. Mary Beth Schraml, SSND - Primary Principal

William Schumacher - Intermediate Principal

Samuel Cotton - High School Principal

Summer Hours: Mon-Thurs: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Fri: 8:30am - 1:00 p.m.

Merle Braam, Dorothy Ziegler, Steve Klinkner,

Vanessa Ewert, George Kluzak, Richard

Johnson, John Allen, Jerry Schultz,

Harold Young, Pat Gardner, Dan Ewert,

Ronald Olsen, Therese Breiter, Brian Cline,

George Larson, Phil Reiland, Nancy Larson,

Henry (Stalberger) Schladweiler

Loyola is hosting a “Meet and Greet” event on Thursday, July 14, 4-6pm on our Upper Campus, 145 Good Counsel Drive to welcome new PS-12 principal Adam Bemmels, academic dean Kristi Degen, and dean of students Steve Dornbach. All are welcome, please join us!

Remodeling projects are underway on our Upper Campus! Our thanks to many volunteers who have stepped up to help! Projects include creating a third Preschool classroom, a second commons area for students, a new main entrance, and updated carpet and paint throughout the building. If you would like to help, volunteers are still needed for various projects including moving boxes and paint prep. If you have an hour or two to spare, please call 388-0600.

Loyola will host a Preschool/Kindergarten Summer Social on Wednesday, July 20, 6-8pm. If you are still deciding on Kindergarten or would like information about our Preschool, join us! If you are already enrolled for Loyola Kindergarten or Preschool, we encourage you to join us as well! The Zip Zap ice cream truck will be making an appearance and there will be a bounce house and other fun activities. All are welcome, rain or shine.

Loyola is expanding its preschool program to include 2-day morning sessions (T, TH), 3-day morning sessions (M,W,F), 5-day morning and afternoon sessions (M-F) and a full-day (M-F) option. Tuition assistance for Preschool through grade 12 is available. In addition, our four Mankato area parishes offer grants to Loyola students, including Loyola preschoolers. Call 507-388-0600 for more information or to schedule a visit/tour.

LoyolaPalooza is coming! August 20, 5-11pm on the Hill! Live music, beer trucks and wine, food trucks, raffles and fun! Featuring Neon-Live, Chris Rupp and The Plott Hounds! Tickets are $15 in advance- www.loyolapalooza.com or $20 at the gate.

The Lucky 20 Raffle is back! The winning tickets will be drawn at LoyolaPalooza on August 20. Prizes this year include one $10,000 winner, one $5,000 winner, one $1,000 winner, two $500 winners and 15 $200 winners. Twenty chances to win on August 20! Tickets are $100 each and can be purchased by contacting Carol Brady, 507-381-1381.

During the summer months, we will use the current elementary office (Door #2) as our main office. Summer office hours: 9:00-1:00 M-TH. SCRIP orders may be picked up in the elementary office. Please use our main phone line 507.388.0600 to contact us.

Good Counsel to present Ice Cream Social and Open House - Friends and family are invited to attend the School Sisters of Notre Dame Ice Cream Social and Open House 1-4 p.m. Sunday, July 17, at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Mankato. Frozen treats from Culver’s are on the menu! The free event will go on, rain or shine. Entertainment will be provided by the sisters and the Warren Streets band. At 2 p.m., Sister Lucille Matousek will lead a “Hallelujah Chorus” in the chapel to note the historic organ’s 40th year. Enjoy fun family games, visit with the sisters, tour the grounds and chapel, and browse items for sale. For more information, visit www.ssndcp.org/ice/olgc or call 507-389-4231.

Reawakening Hope Silent Retreat - A Silent weekend retreat will be held at Christ the King Retreat Center in Buffalo, Minnesota, August 26-28, 2016. The retreat begins on Friday, August 26, at 8:00 p.m. and concludes on Sunday, August 23, at 12:45 p.m. The theme of the retreat is: “Reawakening Hope.” The men & women of this parish are cordially invited to a beautiful, inexpensive, lakeside weekend of wonderful relaxation and spiritual rejuvenation. The suggested offering for this retreat is $160.00. A non-refundable deposit of $30.00 per person is required to reserve a room. Please call (763) 682-1394 for a registration form and more information.

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